Staff Engineer, Data Platform Experience
Datadog
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Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.
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As a Staff Engineer - Data Semantics, you will serve as a technical leader for the Data Semantics team, balancing the stewardship of critical production systems with the exploration of new platform capabilities. You will be responsible for building and scaling semantic infrastructure that bridges OpenTelemetry, Datadog-native telemetry, cloud-provider telemetry, and customer-defined data models. Your daily work involves driving initiatives focused on schema evolution, telemetry standardization, and semantic interoperability while mentoring engineers through design reviews and technical guidance. The role requires expertise in designing and operating large-scale data infrastructure, distributed systems, or high-throughput data platforms. Key technical areas include schema design, metadata systems, OpenTelemetry, observability platforms, knowledge graphs, and AI-assisted developer tooling. You will solve complex problems regarding how telemetry is modeled, understood, and consumed across the company's observability platform to improve overall product experiences.
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